Sam says the Hugging Face incident forced a training pause and a rethink on AI pace

dhadfieldmenell · x · 2026-07-29

Sam’s remarks about the Hugging Face incident frame it as a real security wake-up call: training was paused while the team worked on hardening sandboxing against chained zero-days.

He says the episode may force frontier labs to slow the pace of AI development so society has time to harden around new capability levels, while trying to avoid both regulatory capture and lab collusion.

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